f8, which is a technical term referring the lens aperture setting on a camera, is theme long in the making. A little over five years ago, I began the arduous task of trying to find a way to present my photos to the world online. I primarily wanted two things: A portfolio section and a blog section built into one CMS. What I didn’t know at the time, is that it would take me five years to figure out. After researching literally hundreds of options including Flash powered portfolios (a big no-no in today’s mobile world), to countless bulky CMS’s that just didn’t cut it, I decided on using WordPress. It was well worth the wait.

Thad is the founder of Theme.Works and Graph Paper Press. Previously, he produced online multimedia and documentary projects for USA Today including the inauguration of President Barack Obama and many others. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Abby.

I discovered it by reading the code. You must create posts with 2 custom field variables:

1. “image” and the set the value of this to the fully qualified path for the gallery image.
2. “thumbnail” – and set the value to the fully qualified path for the thumbnail image that will appear on the home page under the posts.

I discovered it by reading the code. You must create posts with 2 custom field variables:

1. “image” and the set the value of this to the fully qualified path for the gallery image.
2. “thumbnail” – and set the value to the fully qualified path for the thumbnail image that will appear on the home page under the posts.

Can you provide your goods and services into the educational sector in your area. if you can and you are willing to offer the schools a discount, you could find your business in front of all the educational establishments in the uk. you also get direct communication with headteachers to update them with your special offers etc

Can you provide your goods and services into the educational sector in your area. if you can and you are willing to offer the schools a discount, you could find your business in front of all the educational establishments in the uk. you also get direct communication with headteachers to update them with your special offers etc

This is totally weird. I have been trying to get either F8 or Monochrome to work on my wife’s blog and no matter what I do there is just no options tab. I cannot do anything. The theme loads but then there are no thumbnails and no pictures in the rotating javascript player. Help

This is totally weird. I have been trying to get either F8 or Monochrome to work on my wife’s blog and no matter what I do there is just no options tab. I cannot do anything. The theme loads but then there are no thumbnails and no pictures in the rotating javascript player. Help

Wanted to verify – Is there no ‘options’ panel in the F8 Lite? I have looked in all the menus and can’t find it. I am thinking the ‘Lite’ version is ‘as-is’ (or modified w/ your knowledge of CSS), and the options panel comes with the full F8 version? Would love to know for sure. Thanks!

Wanted to verify – Is there no ‘options’ panel in the F8 Lite? I have looked in all the menus and can’t find it. I am thinking the ‘Lite’ version is ‘as-is’ (or modified w/ your knowledge of CSS), and the options panel comes with the full F8 version? Would love to know for sure. Thanks!

Dear Thad,
I’m sorry for this question, but I’m new in using wordpress themes and the panel.
I’ve just downloaded the F8 lite teme and uploaded into my wp content folder on siteground.
I’m now actually trying to understand how to manage the contents (pics, texts, link) in order to obtain the same presentation of the Demo!
Do I have to pay to have a control panel or I can use the wp panel?

Dear Thad,
I’m sorry for this question, but I’m new in using wordpress themes and the panel.
I’ve just downloaded the F8 lite teme and uploaded into my wp content folder on siteground.
I’m now actually trying to understand how to manage the contents (pics, texts, link) in order to obtain the same presentation of the Demo!
Do I have to pay to have a control panel or I can use the wp panel?

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

What exactly are the differences between the f8 theme and the f8 lite theme?
I guess there are differences in customizability. But what _exactly_ are these differences? It’s impossible to decide for a theme if you don’t clearly state the differences between them for a user.

What exactly are the differences between the f8 theme and the f8 lite theme?
I guess there are differences in customizability. But what _exactly_ are these differences? It’s impossible to decide for a theme if you don’t clearly state the differences between them for a user.

with f8 lite and wordpress 2.7.1. It doesn’t work. I can’t see no widget to add the gallery to the front page such as displayed on your page. And it’s not integrated with wordpress at all. Further, something seem to break wordpress’s media flash uploader, either due to f8 lite, your galleria plugin or the google-ajax-libraries plugin.

Is f8 any better? Does it work correctly with wordpress 2.7.1 (and 2.8)? I’m really not into beta software, I want something that works nicely and as advertised out of the box.

with f8 lite and wordpress 2.7.1. It doesn’t work. I can’t see no widget to add the gallery to the front page such as displayed on your page. And it’s not integrated with wordpress at all. Further, something seem to break wordpress’s media flash uploader, either due to f8 lite, your galleria plugin or the google-ajax-libraries plugin.

Is f8 any better? Does it work correctly with wordpress 2.7.1 (and 2.8)? I’m really not into beta software, I want something that works nicely and as advertised out of the box.

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section. I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again. Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed. Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!

I am very disappointed. I love this theme and I’m very excited to use it but there is literally no support. I signed up for this website but did not want to pay, but it seems that unless you pay you can’t receive support? I have read people saying that the new version with the new version of wordpress doesn’t allow for customizing so you need to use css. Every other theme I have tried includes pages and pages of support for free, can you please contact me with some information on receiving support for simple things such as how to get my pictures to appear.

Please read the instructions.html file contained in the download. Support takes time. Time is money. If you need our support, we have to charge for it. The alternative is totally unsustainable as we have tens of thousands of free subscribers and only three of us.

I am very disappointed. I love this theme and I’m very excited to use it but there is literally no support. I signed up for this website but did not want to pay, but it seems that unless you pay you can’t receive support? I have read people saying that the new version with the new version of wordpress doesn’t allow for customizing so you need to use css. Every other theme I have tried includes pages and pages of support for free, can you please contact me with some information on receiving support for simple things such as how to get my pictures to appear.

Please read the instructions.html file contained in the download. Support takes time. Time is money. If you need our support, we have to charge for it. The alternative is totally unsustainable as we have tens of thousands of free subscribers and only three of us.

I seem no reply from the Author. I just tried this theme it look great but face same don’t how to configure it. Well while play around with it, I managed alternate my images.
Go to your post > Custom Fields (Name: image, Value: link to your image). Hope this help.

I wonder how to create the thumbnail and change the link under the main image.

I seem no reply from the Author. I just tried this theme it look great but face same don’t how to configure it. Well while play around with it, I managed alternate my images.
Go to your post > Custom Fields (Name: image, Value: link to your image). Hope this help.

I wonder how to create the thumbnail and change the link under the main image.

I managed to figure out how to get the theme to work, but does look as the instructions may be out of date.

1. The media setting are now in setting > media
2. Forget the slideshow folder part as it is not required to get it to work.
3. To get the slideshow to work you need to follow the instructions, the important part is the tag “image” and use the medium picture as the url
4. There is a bug the code php which stop you clicking on the image to enlarge the picture, it looks as it is using a function that may no longer be available, I am using WordPress 2.9.1. I edited the image.php file and remove lines 6 and 8 to allow the image to be displayed.
5. Also you have to upload the images to ensure that you get the images the correct size.

I managed to figure out how to get the theme to work, but does look as the instructions may be out of date.

1. The media setting are now in setting > media
2. Forget the slideshow folder part as it is not required to get it to work.
3. To get the slideshow to work you need to follow the instructions, the important part is the tag “image” and use the medium picture as the url
4. There is a bug the code php which stop you clicking on the image to enlarge the picture, it looks as it is using a function that may no longer be available, I am using WordPress 2.9.1. I edited the image.php file and remove lines 6 and 8 to allow the image to be displayed.
5. Also you have to upload the images to ensure that you get the images the correct size.

The instructions.html doesn’t work for my blog. I can get the thumbnails to appear with each post but the slideshow will not work. This is the problem that a lot of people are having. I have included the “image” custom field but no gallery. I’ve linked that to the medium image and I’ve even tried it with the full sized image but with no luck. I read that the slideshow only works with the #1 category. Maybe I’ve deleted the #1 category and now I have other categories that the slideshow won’t pick up? No matter what I do it only displays the blog name, the phone number, and the email.

I am a web designer with a lot of experience with wordpress. I am using this blog theme for my personal portfolio, but I can’t get it to work. Does anybody know why? It seems like tons of people are having trouble and the only support help says “look at the instructions”… I have and it doesn’t work! Category issue maybe? Can I change that in the code if that is what’s wrong?

The instructions.html doesn’t work for my blog. I can get the thumbnails to appear with each post but the slideshow will not work. This is the problem that a lot of people are having. I have included the “image” custom field but no gallery. I’ve linked that to the medium image and I’ve even tried it with the full sized image but with no luck. I read that the slideshow only works with the #1 category. Maybe I’ve deleted the #1 category and now I have other categories that the slideshow won’t pick up? No matter what I do it only displays the blog name, the phone number, and the email.

I am a web designer with a lot of experience with wordpress. I am using this blog theme for my personal portfolio, but I can’t get it to work. Does anybody know why? It seems like tons of people are having trouble and the only support help says “look at the instructions”… I have and it doesn’t work! Category issue maybe? Can I change that in the code if that is what’s wrong?

go to your posts, click edit, look at the bottom right of the edit page- this is where you must select a thumbnail image for each post. click select thumbnail, it will navigate you to the image editing page. where you must find the button and click to select it as thumbnail

I’d really like to use F8 but I still can’t figure out how to get the slideshow to work and the posts to show the thumbnails on the front page of the site. There is no slideshow folder to add images to. Under the “upload/insert” button on the post editing page, I’ve selected an image to be a thumbnail and inserted it into the post, and still it doesn’t appear on the slideshow or in the post summary on the front page.

go to your posts, click edit, look at the bottom right of the edit page- this is where you must select a thumbnail image for each post. click select thumbnail, it will navigate you to the image editing page. where you must find the button and click to select it as thumbnail

I’d really like to use F8 but I still can’t figure out how to get the slideshow to work and the posts to show the thumbnails on the front page of the site. There is no slideshow folder to add images to. Under the “upload/insert” button on the post editing page, I’ve selected an image to be a thumbnail and inserted it into the post, and still it doesn’t appear on the slideshow or in the post summary on the front page.

Hi! The slideshow for my f8 site is not “in motion”…. it only shows the last image from the last post. I am pretty sure it’s supposed to go through all of them but I’m not sure how to conrol that. Anybody know what might be going on? Thank you!

Hi! The slideshow for my f8 site is not “in motion”…. it only shows the last image from the last post. I am pretty sure it’s supposed to go through all of them but I’m not sure how to conrol that. Anybody know what might be going on? Thank you!

Hi! The slideshow for my f8 site is not “in motion”…. it only shows the image from the most recent post. I am pretty sure it’s supposed to go through all of them but I’m not sure how to control that. Anybody know what might be going on? Thank you!

Hi! The slideshow for my f8 site is not “in motion”…. it only shows the image from the most recent post. I am pretty sure it’s supposed to go through all of them but I’m not sure how to control that. Anybody know what might be going on? Thank you!

Hi, I’m using F8 Lite for a client and want to change a few things around. I’ve been looking through the php and can’t seem to find where to change the color of the Navigation boxes (from black to white) and the text (white to black). Any help would be great. Also I want to change the text color of the blog title from red to black. Is this all done in stylesheets.php? I’m pretty inexperienced with all this but know a few things.

Hi, I’m using F8 Lite for a client and want to change a few things around. I’ve been looking through the php and can’t seem to find where to change the color of the Navigation boxes (from black to white) and the text (white to black). Any help would be great. Also I want to change the text color of the blog title from red to black. Is this all done in stylesheets.php? I’m pretty inexperienced with all this but know a few things.